Program
Description: The Gulf Coastal Plains & Ozarks Landscape Conservation
Cooperative (GCPO LCC) is a non-regulatory conservation partnership comprised
of private, state, and federal organizations and agencies that have come
together to collectively define, design, and deliver landscapes capable of sustaining
natural and cultural resources at desired levels now and into the future.
Evaluation
and Assessment of Incentives for Natural Resource Management on Private Lands:
Identification of Economic and Cultural Endpoints/Indicators
The
GCPO LCC has spent considerable time identifying landscape and species
endpoints that define desired ecological states for priority systems within the
GCPO LCC geography.
While
these endpoints are useful targets for land managers with a primary interest in
natural resource conservation, the majority of land in the GCPO LCC is private
and managed to not only provide conservation benefits but also economic (i.e.,
food, fuel, and fiber) and cultural (i.e., recreation, aesthetics, and historical)
benefits as well. To effectively work with private landowners, the conservation
community must understand how they value these other benefits.
Projects under
this topic
should identify and quantify ecosystem goods and services that can serve as
economic and cultural endpoints for priority habitat types. Projects that
evaluate how economic and/or cultural goods and services can be leveraged to
facilitate
natural
resource management that achieves desired ecological states on private lands
are of particular interest.
Funds
available: Up to $350,000
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If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity or would like to learn more about it please contact Melissa, mke...@westga.edu